Hello...welcome to the new PAC...I've been a life long USC fan and a secondary CU fan because those twains never met before. Now I have to deal with it.
But, CU fans cannot expect to come in like guns blazing because Hawkins did a number on the program that needs to be rebuilt. Don't you think it's better to come in, quietly and modestly, and establish the program with new coaching staff, etc. and then see what happens? The PAC doesn't care about a MNC back in 1990. This is a new world!
"Hello folks! We are the University of Colorado. We all really hope you like us. A lot too! We hope to play nice while we become accustomed to this new conference. We dont mean to step on any toes so dont expect us to play very hard. We know it would be bad form for us to come into the conference you invited us into and win any games. We will just make sure we lose all games for the first few years and then see where we can go from there. We know and appriciate the fact that you invited us to the conference to be nothing but a pushover and are happy to be the doormat for the conference. We know that in no way it was expected that the University of Colorado would come into the conference and want to compete and try to be the best. Nope. We are just thankful that we are allowed to be the doormat for the Pac-12 Conference. Someone needs to be and we are just glad that we have that oppertunity. We have forgotten about winning our National Championship, conference titles, heisman, thorp award winners.... well.... all award winners, all americans and all else that may give any indication that we have a proud tradition. We just dont want to offend any of our new hosts in the Pac 12. We are lame. we have nothing to bring to the table and just beg for your understanding as we try to add what we can to your great conference."
better, gate?